It's been a while since I posted. Whew. Well, I guess there's some catching up to do. I'm around 135 lbs. 4 weeks ago I started a new push (8/1/11) to be 115 lbs by the end of the year. Had gotten to 131.5 lbs and I've kept the 7K deficits per week but I've lost inches and am at 29.5 " at the waist, so I'm losing inches and gained a bit of weight. Not despairing about that yet. I had gotten as far up at 149 lbs. Eating normal, chicken, cereal, milk, peanut butter, fruits and vegetables. Yep, went to a Vitamix demo and got inspired to take the Vitamix out of the box (a year and four months after I bought it). Now I love this carrot/roma tomato/spinach/mini pepper soup with Italian blend seasoning... 50 calories per cup and delicious. So now I eat (well, drink) vegetables, and LOVE IT.
Dizziness still there. So it wasn't the vegetables (or lack of). I'll throw in some random stuff to catch up a bit. I learned to control my eating, and some days I stay at the 700's and 800's and one day I even went to 240 calories (3 apples, 3 classes... because of the dizziness I can't do classes without food, and apples hold me up pretty well... I wouldn't chance a class while fasting even though I can get through the whole day without working out fasting). I know I'm going into anorexic mind-set territory, and maybe it's arrogant to think I can dabble in it and not be sucked into the mentality. I.e. I can have and exercise power over food but to the degree that I want, while I'm staying in control, instead of it taking control over me. It's like going into an asylum and being sure you can make it back out sane. There's some degree of risk that it'll take you and suck you in. Maybe that's what makes it thrilling. If that's what it is. Eh, at the end of the day I love food too much to be anorexic, I restrict when I need to and let loose the rest of the time.
Some days I'll have as high as 2700 calories. As long as I'm at a 7K deficit at the end of the week, I don't care how it's distributed. Works out to about 1450 average calories a day. No going into Monday. End of Sunday, 7K deficit. I've done it (with deficits like 7007) the past four weeks. No compromises, and I think that's why it's working again after being stuck at 140 lbs forever.
2-year anniversary of group classes Thursday. Going for 25 classes this week. 2 down, 23 to go. Whew. I was in the middle of class #1 when I decided to go for it. I don't think I can out-eat 25 classes.
I decided I was too scattered. First get to 115 lbs. Then gain muscle. Then train for triathlons. Ironman one day.
I have a shoulder injury that's still healing, about 7 weeks now. Took a BodyPump Sunday and 2.5 lbs on each side was hard, so I'm going to keep it at that. I went back to BP too soon a few weeks ago and re-injured it. So there I was taking BP and I'm shaking so hard out of fear. My body's terrified of getting injured again. I was surprised how hard I was shaking and breathing shallowly. Definitely an emotive reaction to it.
I found out that if I put my water bottle in front of me and focus on it I can do squats without getting dizzy, and it's awesome to be able to do them again. It also weakens the dizziness for a bit. Never gone, but better sometimes. It's been a year.
When I got the shoulder injury I was in the middle of Zumba and all of a sudden I couldn't raise my left arm. Freaked me out. I cut it down to just Turbokicks because I could do them without using the left arm at all (and burned around 75% of the calories which makes sense because I was using 75% of my body... but I burned more calories than staying at home!!) and spins TKB was easy to modify. Zumba uses both hands a lot so it was harder and I skipped it for a few weeks. Then added some moves with the left arm, then everything. Repeated punching with the left arm still bothers me a bit, as does cycle sometimes. I think I hurt it at a Groupon boot camp I was trying out.
At least the BP didn't make the shoulder worse. That's promising. I lost a LOT of strength!! I have a new focus, though, this time 115 will happen. Then the muscle building. Then the triathlon training. I don't have time for everything at once.
Met this awesome instructor named Rachel over at Charleston and Lamb and love her TKB and Zumba (which I've restarted). Two years later, still meeting awesome instructors.
I'm FINALLY liking what I see in the mirror, I look skinnier. Although I still want to lose 20 lbs more. 107 is unhealthy, 115 is good for me.
I've monitored sugar so I don't have low blood sugar (it's right at dead center of healthy, 100 is dead average, I was 101), but apples hold me up through anything. I was in the middle of a TKB and felt I was going to faint so I walked out, ate an apple, and was able to come back and finish and literally felt like somebody was holding my body up by my armpits. Apples are my safety food.
A bit scattered today as I catch up on things. Had John this morning and then Rachel's Zumba, Kelly's TKB tonight to round out Monday. Body feeling great. Can't wait to do this !!
